“Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called 'inference to the best explanation'. It's a cheap accommodation, and no… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything.… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“In the movie where somebody is invisible all the sudden—you know, a nuclear radiation fluke or a mad scientist recipe—and you think,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I believe that schools of today with all their answers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, above everything else, take us back… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
I was a science fiction geek from an early age, enthralled by the questions of life in the universe. As I got… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the… — Mark Frauenfelder Copy Share Image
We must ensure that girls do not close off career paths by limiting the subjects that they study - this is why… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
“I find it fascinating how we can see something with our eyes, hear with our ears and speak from our mouths. Although… — Mifune Ryouko Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“In a survey of thousands of respondents, researchers in England found that of all the “happy habits” science has currently identified as… — Susan David Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another.… — James Fadiman Copy Share Image
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. — Erik Adigard Copy Share Image
“Voters, activists, and political leaders of the present day are in the position of medieval doctors. They hold simple, prescientific theories about… — Michael Huemer Copy Share Image
“Larry Janesky runs it. He’ll dry out your basement. (See his, yes, bestselling book Dry Basement Science.) The” — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. — Democritus Copy Share Image
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must… — G. Tyler Miller Copy Share Image
Scientists say the universe is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons, but I think they forgot to mention the Morons. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that… — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“The innocent put their faith into their government, whereas the smart do their own research and adopt protective lifestyle changes based on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
